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Comey is now effectively saying his own boss was misleading the American public, and that a formal criminal probe is indeed underway. On March 4, Trump claimed in a tweet storm that Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped before his election victory, offering no evidence. (more...)

She added: "We were about to walk down a ramp, and he said it might be a bit awkward". Theresa May pictured in a £450 Egg coat, a £470 Sine for Egg sweater and black boots walking in the countryside with her husband, Philip. The shoot, by iconic celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, took place past year at the PM's country retreat in Chequers, and shows May wearing an L.K.Bennett coat and dress. (more...)

In his first meeting with top officials of the state, Adityanath distributed copies of the BJP manifesto and also administered a cleanliness pledge. Among the cabinet ministers are BJP leaders Surya Pratap Sahi, Suresh Khanna, Satish Mahana, Rajesh Agarwal, Dharampal Singh, S.P. (more...)

He was forced to step down in January, a number of months before a planned retirement, because of an undisclosed illness. McGuinness was born in 1950 in Derry, on the province's northern coast, and grew up in the city when it was riven by sectarian bloodshed. (more...)

His nomination has been cheered by Republicans and praised by some left-leaning legal scholars, and Democrats head into the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Monday divided over how hard to fight him. The Colorado judge was introduced, as is customary, by his home state's senators. Gorsuch said he has agreed with the majority opinion 99% of the time on the appeals court, belying criticism that he is somehow out of the mainstream. (more...)

The magazine attributes Trump's drop to flagging real estate values in midtown Manhattan. "Since Trump owns so many buildings in such a small area - including Trump Tower, Trump International Hotel and Tower, NikeTown and 1290 Avenue of the Americas -the softening of the market has impacted his net worth more than anything else over the past year". (more...)

GST, or goods and ser vices tax, is a single indirect pan-India tax regime that is to be introduced on July 1.The state government will facilitate the move towards GST also by waiving off interest (to an extent) and penalty for those taxpayers who have not yet registered under VAT. (more...)

The poll showed that 53 percent of white young American adults feel that Trump occupies the Oval Office legitimately, but 55 percent of those respondents rated his job performance negatively. Young Asian-American adults reported feeling similarly with only 36% of them saying that they believe Trump is legitimate. A minority of white respondents, 47%, said the same, according to the poll . (more...)

In 2015, he had said that those who don't practise surya namaskar can leave India and had also compared actor Shah Rukh Khan to terrorist Hafeez Saeed. The BJP poll manifesto had promised, and party president Amit Shah reaffirmed, that the first cabinet meeting of a BJP government would shut down all slaughterhouses in the state and waive the harvest loans of small and marginal farmers. (more...)

Collins said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that she wishes Trump would "explain to us on the Intelligence Committee and to the American people" his basis for the accusations. US officials are taking fingerprints of asylum seekers in an Australian-run camp on the Pacific island of Nauru, signaling that vetting of applicants for resettlement in what Trump calls a "dumb deal" has restarted. (more...)

The World Happiness Report was inaugurated in 2012 and this year's is the fifth report to come out, as it continues to gain global recognition. People are unhappiest in Rwanda, Syria, Tanzania, Burundi and the Central African Republic which ranks last. (more...)

Comey, appearing before the House Intelligence Committee along with National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers, confirmed for the first time publicly on Monday that the FBI was investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, including communications between Trump associates and Russian officials. (more...)

Tillerson intends to miss what would be his first meeting in Brussels with the 28 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to attend President Donald Trump's expected April 6-7 talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, four current and former US officials said . (more...)

Yet as part of the overall inquiry, Comey and Rogers both said they knew of no evidence that any actual votes during the 2016 election were changed as a result of Russian interference. Susan Collins, R-Maine said Sunday. Trump's allegation had also triggered a diplomatic row with Britain recently, as Trump and aides cited a discredited report by an American television network that Obama asked a British intelligence agency to tap him. (more...)

While the United States fell just one spot to No. 14 in this year's report, this belies the overall decline in happiness from 2005-2007 to 2014-2016. Denmark and Iceland rank immediately after Norway in the Top 3. The top 10 happiest places remained somewhat the same. Despite our penchant for grumbling, it appears that Malaysians are for the most part a happy bunch after all. (more...)

Koppenhaver was also found guilty of assaulting a male, Corey Thomas, who was in Mack's apartment the day of the attack. Jurors remained deadlocked, however, on a pair of attempted murder charges, resulting in a mistrial. On the stand, Mackinday testified that Koppenhaver had beaten, raped, and threatened to kill her. The defense attorney characterized Koppenhaver as a "raging bull" with brain injuries from his fighting career and emotions inflamed by the use of steroids and ... (more...)

He adds that people are scared to hire him. Apparently he ranks second in his 2014 batch but remains unemployed, after being rejected about 40 times that he gave interviews for multinational shipping companies. BBCreported that Hussain has been trying to get around this problem by getting a new passport and a driving licence under the name Sajid. However he hit a roadblock with his education certificates. (more...)

The "Africa Rising" narrative, which overturned earlier stereotypes, projected a continent with a growing urban middle class market with new consumer appetites. In those surveys, people give scores from 1 to 10 on how much social support they feel they have if something goes wrong, their freedom to make their own life choices, their sense of how corrupt their society is and their generosity. (more...)

President Donald Trump's explosive allegation that Barack Obama wiretapped his NY skyscraper during the presidential campaign has left him increasingly isolated, with allies on Capitol Hill and within his own administration offering no evidence to back him up. (more...)

In reply to Australia's big first-inning total of 451, India's marathon man Pujara and wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha produced an extraordinary batting performance as they not only helped India to go behind the Australian total but also guided the side to take a substantial first innings-lead. (more...)